ied explicitly: >>> t = datetime(2007, 4, 1, 15, 30) >>> tzinfo = get_timezone('Europe/Paris') >>> t = _localize(tzinfo, t) >>> format_time(t, format='full', tzinfo=tzinfo, locale='fr_FR') '15:30:00 heure d’été d’Europe centrale' >>> format_time(t, "hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz", tzinfo=get_timezone('US/Eastern'), ... locale='en') u"09 o'clock AM, Eastern Daylight Time" As that example shows, when this function gets passed a ``datetime.datetime`` value, the actual time in the formatted string is adjusted to the timezone specified by the `tzinfo` parameter. If the ``datetime`` is "naive" (i.e. it has no associated timezone information), it is assumed to be in UTC. These timezone calculations are **not** performed if the value is of type ``datetime.time``, as without date information there's no way to determine what a given time would translate to in a different timezone without information about whether daylight savings time is in effect or not. This means that time values are left as-is, and the value of the `tzinfo` parameter is only used to display the timezone name if needed: >>> t = time(15, 30) >>> format_time(t, format='full', tzinfo=get_timezone('Europe/Paris'), ... locale='fr_FR') # doctest: +SKIP u'15:30:00 heure normale d\u2019Europe centrale' >>> format_time(t, format='full', tzinfo=get_timezone('US/Eastern'), ... locale='en_US') # doctest: +SKIP u'3:30:00\u202fPM Eastern Standard Time' :param time: the ``time`` or ``datetime`` object; if `None`, the current time in UTC is used :param format: one of "full", "long", "medium", or "short", or a custom date/time pattern :param tzinfo: the time-zone to apply to the time for display :param locale: a `Locale` object or a locale identifier. Defaults to the system time locale. Nr